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STRIPPING MECHANISM FOR GARDING- ENGINES. No. 398,019. Patented Feb.19,1889.

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V UNTTEJD STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE ASIIWORTII AND ELIJAl-l' ASIHVORTI-I, OF MANCHESTER, COUNTY OFLANCASTER, ENGLAND.

STRIPPING MECHANISM FOR CARDING-ENGINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,019, dated February19, 1889.

Application filed March 16, 1888. ficrial No. 267,384. (No model.)Patented in England May 15, 1883, No. 2,432.

To (tZZ whom it may concernI Be it known that we, GEORGE ASHWORTH andELIJAH ASHWORTH, engineers, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain andIreland, and residing at Manchester, county of Lancaster, England, haveinvented an Improved Stripping Mechanism for Oardinglngines, (for whichwe obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 2,432, dated May 15, 1883,)of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to means for brushing the traveling flats ofcarding-engines. VVemount a brush-shaft to revolve in brackets fixed tothe carding-engine framing, the said shaft carrying a brush which ateach revolution sweeps across the fiat which at the time is within therange of action of the brush. Fibers removed from the flats aredelivered by the brush to hackles, which are mounted so that they can beturned away from the brush when it is desirable to remove theaccumulation of fiber.

Our invention will be best described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings.

Figure l is an end view of the casing in which the brush revolves andshows the manner in which the casing and the brush-shaft are mounted.Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the apparatus and several flats. Fig. 3 isa front view of the apparatus, partly broken away.

In Figs. 1 and 2, a is one of two brackets which are fixed to the sideframing of the carding-engine-one on each side of the 'en-' gine. Thesaid brackets carry a shaft, Z), upon which is fixed the brush c, (seenin Figs. 2 and 3,) which brush is preferably made of fine hardened andtempered steel wire. At each revolution of the shaft the brush sweeps.Over the flats (Z (Z, which are successively brought within the rangeof action of the brush by the ordinary traveling movement of the chainof fiats. As the brush passes over the flat, the wires of the brushpenetrate between the dents of the wire card of the flat and removeaccumulations of fiber, and also brush out finer dust or fluff. Thefibers adhering to the brush are removed by hackles e, which are fixedclose together in a line extending the length of the brush. The brush isinclosed within a cylindrical casin g, f, which is hinged at f and thesaid hackles are fixed to a part, f of the casing, which is hinged at fso that it can be opened like a door, in the manner indicated by thedotted lines in Fig. \Yhen so opened, the hackles are withdrawn fromwithin the casing, and the fiber which has accumulated upon the hacklescan then be readily removed. The whole of the easing can also be turnedupon the hinge-pin f as a pivot, so as to expose the brush,the ends ofthe casin g being formed with curved slots, so as to clear the shaft, asindicated at h in Fig. 2. \Vhcn the casing is turned down into itsordinary position, it is secured at each end by means of a bolt andthumb-nut, g.

The hackles 6 may be situated in. any other suitable position around theaxis of the shaft, so that their points penetrate the brush at eachrevolution and remove the accumulated fibers. The brush may-be made ofany suitable material. In some cases we apply more than one brush aroundthe shaft, so that the flat is brushed more than once at each revolutionof the brush-shaft.

Having now described on r invention, we de- 7 5 clare that we claim Thecombination of the side framing of a carding-engine, brackets a, fixedthereon, and the shaft mounted to revolve in the brackets and carrying abrush, 0, with a casing, f, hinged at one side to expose the brush, anda hinged door to the casing carrying hackles e to clear the brush, allsubstantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. ASHWORTH. ELIJAH ASHVVORTH.

\Vitnesses:

DAVID FULTON, JOSHUA ENTWISLE.

